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Ali Tohidi
Ali Tohidi

Reputation: 73

unidentified characters in terminal

I faced these strange abnormal characters when I was trying to calculate PI number in terminal over a Beowulf cluster. how can I convert these characters into some legible characters? it's interesting that when I make less processes , the result is normal .

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Thanks in advance.
edit:

This was done with mpich 1 and with 1000 processes over a 3-computer cluster.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 477

Answers (1)

Thomas Dickey
Thomas Dickey

Reputation: 54583

Because the output has lots of Unicode replacement characters, it looks as if the locale settings on your machine are not set to use UTF-8 encoding.

Of course, it could simply be from attempting to print binary data on the terminal. But locale is a possibility. In either case, the terminal is running with UTF-8 encoding and your output is not valid UTF-8 text.

Resetting the terminal will not be helpful; it is the application (or your use of it) which is the problem.

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Upvotes: 1

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